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Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week the ladies of Bombshell go deep on the Syria raid and the “value” of high-value targeting, before turning their attention to popular protests in Iraq and Lebanon. Of course, no episode would be complete without a Brexit update! Radha regales us with CFIUS tales and we all lament the attacks on LTC Vindman. Also, will the NDAA ever pass?

Links

Tamara Qiblawi, "Protests Toppled Two Governments in Three Days, But the Fight is Only Beginning," CNN, November 2, 2019
Sara Khairat, "What Triggered Iraq's Mammoth Protests?" Aljazeera, November 1, 2019
Alissa Rubin, "Iraq Demonstrations Grow, and Government Scrambles to Respond," New York Times, November 1, 2019
Jen Kirby, "The Future of Brexit Will Be Decided in December 12 Election," Vox, October 29, 2019
Mark Landler and Stephen Castle, "Boris Johnson Has Big Lead in UK Election. That Might Not Mean Much," New York Times, November 2, 2019
Leo Shane III and Joe Gould, "What's in the Emergency Defense Policy Bill?" Defense News, October 30, 2019
John M. Donnelly, "Skinny Defense Bill Omits Key Element: Military Construction," Roll Call, November 1, 2019
Joe Gould, "Congress Mulls Spring Continuing Resolution to Avoid Government Shutdown," Defense News, October 25, 2019
Greg Roumeliotis, Yingzhi Yang, Echo Wang, and Alexandra Alper, "Exclusive: US Opens National Security Investigation Into TikTok," Reuters, November 1, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.4	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Jolman. And I'm Rada Ayn Gar.
0:15.9	And I don't know. This is like the girl interrupted episode or the like.
0:23.1	We got a lot of stuff going on here episode.
0:26.5	We are well distributed again this morning.
0:29.5	I think Rana is with family.
0:32.1	Lauren is solo parenting and my mother is visiting.
0:34.6	And so basically, who knows what's going to happen over the next 45 or
0:39.1	50 minutes as we record this episode. That's right. I was like, this is our emotional outlet.
0:43.5	It's hard to know how much of it will be national security focused. Right. It is eight in the damn
0:47.6	morning on a Saturday morning. And I would really like to wash my hair, but it's going to be a great
0:53.7	episode. But we are here to
0:57.6	regale our many listeners with the important details of things going on around the world, all of
1:03.7	which we have read about in the last 45 minutes and or 45 seconds to try to make sense of these
1:10.6	many and various things. Ladies, what are we
1:13.8	drinking? I assume it's a lot of coffee. I'm on my second cup of coffee and I made fresh coffee
1:19.3	as opposed to, I don't know if you guys know this. Like I will drink coffee from yesterday
1:23.5	reheated in the microwave. Oh my God. Me too. I think this is left over from the Department of Defense. I really do. I will drink coffee basically until it is empty and I will also my coffee's gone cold reheated an infinite number of times. Oh my God, you people are savages. How do you live like this? I'm buying you both nespressos for Christmas. I have a nespresso.
1:44.5	I just, it's fine.
1:46.2	Coffee is coffee.
1:47.0	Coffee is not for enjoyment.
1:48.6	It's just there.
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